Thank art. 41 (paragraph 1-3) of the Constitution of Kazakhstan introduced an amendment in February 2011, Nursultan Nazarbayev, has called an early presidential election to be held on April 26.
Officially it was desired to inspire the coming electoral competition with the need to overcome the current economic crisis and the dangerous Russian nationalism, in fact, the real reason is to reprogram a definite political continuity for senior Kazakh leader, in the logic of having a strong man in command to meet the new threats looming in this 2015, without waiting for the natural expiration of the legislature in 2016.
Tension rises between Beijing and Naypyidaw after four Chinese civilians died in an explosion apparently caused by a bomb launched by Burmese warplane engaged in military operations against Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA)[1]. The incident occurred on March 13 near the city of Lincang, in the south-western Chinese province of Yunnan. Political relations are particularly tense also because a similar episode happened just a few days earlier when some civilians’ buildings were damaged or destroyed by a stray shell.
The killing of Boris Nemtsov, occurred on February 27 in Moscow, brought a thorny issue back to the public attention, namely the Russian military involvement in Ukrainian crisis. Accusations and denials have been continuously following one another since the beginning of the fighting.
Tension increases between Armenia and Azerbaijan after Azeri military forces shot down an Armenian MI-14 combat helicopter in Karabakh’s Agdam district on Wednesday 12 at approximately 13:35[1].
The last weekend some shots fired by armed men shook the central area of Bangkok.
In Bangkok bombs, gunfire and events covered , for about four months in normal daily life.
A grenade exploded on Sunday in Bangkok's central business district and killing two people.
The Olympic Committees of at least 5 European countries besides the U.S. have received terrorist threats before the games in Sochi.
Despite assurances by the Russian authorities , letters containing terrorist threats delivered to the Olympic Committees of Italy , Hungary, Germany , Slovenia and Slovakia have caused alarm and caused some nervousness in relation to security.
Kamikaze woman in the former Stalingrad Volgograd in Southern Russia: Oksana Aslanova was detonated inside the train station , 18 dead and 50 wounded - a threat to the Winter Olympics in Sochi.
Diplomatic tension between Russia and the Euro-Atlantic axis is increasing, and that is because of a certain number of short-range Iskander missiles (called SS-26 Stone in NATO code) have been deployed by Moscow in Kaliningrad (Russian enclave enclosed by Poland, Lithuania and the Baltic Sea) and along Estonian and Latvian borders.
The energetic war between Russia and EU enriches of a new, precious tessera: few days ago, in fact, the Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orbán, and the managing director of Gazprom, Aleksej Miller, have established, in a meeting which took place in the magyar capital, that the building of the South Stream pipeline, sponsored by Gazprom itself and doomed to transport the russian natural gas from the shores of the Black Sea to the Western Europe (bypassing Ukraine), will go on withouth delays, with the opening of the construction sites in April 2015, as expected.
Everything goes through the tubes of the South Stream gas pipeline. In Italian "flusso meridionale".
If someone thought that senior officials of the Ministry of the Interior, sacrificed to political stability, have acted lightly, you are wrong, the first concern of the government was, and is, not weaken the Italian presence in Astana.
As usual it was desired to mask a coordinated intelligence operation with a simple mistake of the Interior Ministry.
